§ Mr. Eddie Loyden (Liverpool, Garston)I beg to ask leave of the House to present a petition with 36,000 signatures that reads as follows:
That the undersigned, electors from Merseyside, are concerned with the continual rise in food prices and the high costs of fuel for heating, and the difficult situation that confronts pensioners existing on the present State pension.Wherefore your Petitioners pray that your House will give favourable consideration to a Bill, first for immediate assistance with the introduction of the £10.00 Christmas Bonus (as the small increase due on the 20th November, while welcome, is insufficient by far), and also to ensure that the Basic State Pension should not be less than 50 per cent. of the adult male average earnings for a married couple and not less than 33 per cent. for a single person.
§ To lie upon the Table.